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Planetary Lensing Signals of High-Magnification Events under Severe Finite-Source Effect
We investigate the effect of a finite source on the planetary-lensing signals
of high-magnification events. From this, we find that the dependency of the
finite-source effect on the caustic shape is weak and perturbations survive
even when the source is substantially bigger than the caustic. Specifically, we
find that perturbations with fractional magnification excess survive
when the source star is roughly 4 times bigger than the caustic. We also find
characteristic features that commonly appear in the perturbation patterns of
planetary lens systems affected by severe finite-source effect and thus can be
used for the diagnosis of the existence of a companion. These features form in
and around a circle with its center located at the caustic center and a radius
corresponding to that of the source star. The light curve of an event where the
source crosses these features will exhibit a distinctive signal that is
characterized by short-duration perturbations of either positive or negative
excess and a flat residual region between these short-duration perturbations.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
「アジア債権市場」を考える : 現実的フィージビリティからの考察
はじめに 1. アジアにおける資金移動の状況と債券市場整情の必要性 2. 「アジア債券市場」推進,支援活動の状況 3. ABFの有効性 4. 提言:東京市場の「ユーロ市場」化 結語
Infrared and microwaves at 5.8 GHz in a catalytic reactor
An improved micro-reactor cell for IR spectroscopic studies of heterogeneous catalysis was built around a 5.8 GHz microwave cavity. The reactor can operate at 20 bars and with conventional heating up to 720 K, with reactant gas flows velocities (GHSV) from 25 000 to 50 000 h−1. The temperature of the sample under microwave irradiation was measured by time resolved IR emission spectroscopy. The first experiment performed was the IR monitoring of the desorption of carbonates induced by irradiating an alumina sample by microwaves at 5.8 GHz
Formation and Evolution of the Disk System of the Milky Way: [alpha/Fe] Ratios and Kinematics of the SEGUE G-Dwarf Sample
We employ measurements of the [alpha/Fe] ratio derived from low-resolution
(R~2000) spectra of 17,277 G-type dwarfs from the SEGUE survey to separate them
into likely thin- and thick-disk subsamples. Both subsamples exhibit strong
gradients of orbital rotational velocity with metallicity, of opposite signs,
-20 to -30 km/s/dex for the thin-disk and +40 to +50 km/s/dex for the
thick-disk population. The rotational velocity is uncorrelated with
Galactocentric distance for the thin-disk subsample, and exhibits a small trend
for the thick-disk subsample. The rotational velocity decreases with distance
from the plane for both disk components, with similar slopes (-9.0 {\pm} 1.0
km/s/kpc). Thick-disk stars exhibit a strong trend of orbital eccentricity with
metallicity (about -0.2/dex), while the eccentricity does not change with
metallicity for the thin-disk subsample. The eccentricity is almost independent
of Galactocentric radius for the thin-disk population, while a marginal
gradient of the eccentricity with radius exists for the thick-disk population.
Both subsamples possess similar positive gradients of eccentricity with
distance from the Galactic plane. The shapes of the eccentricity distributions
for the thin- and thick-disk populations are independent of distance from the
plane, and include no significant numbers of stars with eccentricity above 0.6.
Among several contemporary models of disk evolution we consider, radial
migration appears to have played an important role in the evolution of the
thin-disk population, but possibly less so for the thick disk, relative to the
gas-rich merger or disk heating scenarios. We emphasize that more physically
realistic models and simulations need to be constructed in order to carry out
the detailed quantitative comparisons that our new data enable.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 18 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables,
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The Case for the Dual Halo of the Milky Way
Carollo et al. have recently resolved the stellar population of the Milky Way
halo into at least two distinct components, an inner halo and an outer halo.
This result has been criticized by Schoenrich et al., who claim that the
retrograde signature associated with the outer halo is due to the adoption of
faulty distances. We refute this claim, and demonstrate that the Schoenrich et
al. photometric distances are themselves flawed because they adopted an
incorrect main-sequence absolute magnitude relationship from the work of
Ivezi\'c et al. When compared to the recommended relation from Ivezi\'c et al.,
which is tied to a Milky Way globular cluster distance scale and accounts for
age and metallicity effects, the relation adopted by Schoenrich et al. yields
up to 18% shorter distances for stars near the main-sequence turnoff (TO). Use
of the correct relationship yields agreement between the distances assigned by
Carollo et al. and Ivezi\'{c} et al. for low-metallicity dwarfs to within
6-10%. Schoenrich et al. also point out that intermediate-gravity stars (3.5 <=
log g <= 4.0) with colors redder than the TO region are likely misclassified,
with which we concur. We implement a new procedure to reassign luminosity
classifications for the TO stars that require it. New derivations of the
rotational behavior demonstrate that the retrograde signature and high velocity
dispersion of the outer-halo population remains. We summarize additional lines
of evidence for a dual halo, including a test of the retrograde signature based
on proper motions alone, and conclude that the preponderance of evidence
strongly rejects the single-halo interpretation.Comment: 46 pages, 2 tables, 15 figures, Accepted for publication in the
Astrophysical Journa
Analytical Solutions to the Mass-Anisotropy Degeneracy with Higher Order Jeans Analysis: A General Method
The Jeans analysis is often used to infer the total density of a system by
relating the velocity moments of an observable tracer population to the
underlying gravitational potential. This technique has recently been applied in
the search for Dark Matter in objects such as dwarf spheroidal galaxies where
the presence of Dark Matter is inferred via stellar velocities. A precise
account of the density is needed to constrain the expected gamma ray flux from
DM self-annihilation and to distinguish between cold and warm dark matter
models. Unfortunately the traditional method of fitting the second order Jeans
equation to the tracer dispersion suffers from an unbreakable degeneracy of
solutions due to the unknown velocity anisotropy of the projected system. To
tackle this degeneracy one can appeal to higher moments of the Jeans equation.
By introducing an analog to the Binney anisotropy parameter at fourth order,
beta' we create a framework that encompasses all solutions to the fourth order
Jeans equations rather than those in the literature that impose unnecessary
correlations between anisotropy of second and fourth order moments. The
condition beta' = f(beta) ensures that the degeneracy is lifted and we
interpret the separable augmented density system as the order-independent case
beta'= beta. For a generic choice of beta' we present the line of sight
projection of the fourth moment and how it could be incorporated into a joint
likelihood analysis of the dispersion and kurtosis. Having presented the
mathematical framework, we then use it to develop a statistical method for the
purpose of placing constraints on dark matter density parameters from discrete
velocity data. The method is tested on simulated dwarf spheroidal data sets
leading to results which motivate study of real dwarf spheroidal data sets.Comment: 21 pages, 15 figures. Accepted by MNRAS. Typo corrected in eq. 3
Teleparallel Dark Energy with Purely Non-minimal Coupling to Gravity
We propose the simplest model of teleparallel dark energy with purely a
non-minimal coupling to gravity but no self-potential, a single model
possessing various interesting features: simplicity, self-potential-free, the
guaranteed late-time cosmic acceleration driven by the non-minimal coupling to
gravity, tracker behavior of the dark energy equation of state at earlier
times, a crossing of the phantom divide at a late time, and the existence of a
finite-time future singularity. We find the analytic solutions of the
dark-energy scalar field respectively in the radiation, matter, and dark energy
dominated eras, thereby revealing the above features. We further illustrate
possible cosmic evolution patterns and present the observational constraint of
this model obtained by numerical analysis and data fitting.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, Title changed, Revised Version Accepted for
publication in Phys. Lett.
Measuring transverse velocities in gravitationally lensed extragalactic systems using an annual parallax effect
A parallax method to determine transverse velocity in a gravitationally
lensed system is described. Using the annual motion of the Earth around the Sun
allows us to probe the local structure of the magnification map that, under
certain assumptions, can be used to infer the effective transverse velocity.
The method is applied to OGLE data for QSO2237+0305 and the velocity value is
estimated to be about (15 +/- 10) km/s if attributed to the lensing galaxy or
about (420 +/- 300) km/s if attributed to the quasar. We find this estimate
unreasonably small and conclude that we have not measured a parallax effect. We
give a short list of properties that a system should possess to allow a
successful implementation of this method.Comment: v2: journal reference update
Detectability of Orbital Motion in Stellar Binary and Planetary Microlenses
A standard binary microlensing event lightcurve allows just two parameters of
the lensing system to be measured: the mass ratio of the companion to its host,
and the projected separation of the components in units of the Einstein radius.
However, other exotic effects can provide more information about the lensing
system. Orbital motion in the lens is one such effect, which if detected, can
be used to constrain the physical properties of the lens. To determine the
fraction of binary lens lightcurves affected by orbital motion (the detection
efficiency) we simulate lightcurves of orbiting binary star and star-planet
(planetary) lenses and simulate the continuous, high-cadence photometric
monitoring that will be conducted by the next generation of microlensing
surveys that are beginning to enter operation. The effect of orbital motion is
measured by fitting simulated lightcurve data with standard static binary
microlensing models; lightcurves that are poorly fit by these models are
considered to be detections of orbital motion. We correct for systematic false
positive detections by also fitting the lightcurves of static binary lenses.
For a continuous monitoring survey without intensive follow-up of high
magnification events, we find the orbital motion detection efficiency for
planetary events with caustic crossings to be 0.061+-0.010, consistent with
observational results, and 0.0130+-0.0055 for events without caustic crossings
(smooth events). Similarly for stellar binaries, the orbital motion detection
efficiency is 0.098+-0.011 for events with caustic crossings and is
0.048+-0.006 for smooth events. These result in combined (caustic crossing and
smooth) orbital motion detection efficiencies of 0.029+-0.005 for planetary
lenses and 0.070+-0.006 for stellar binary lenses. We also investigate how
various microlensing parameters affect the orbital motion detectability.
[Abridged]Comment: 21 pages, 22 figures, 5 table
The stellar content of the Hamburg/ESO survey VI. The metallicity distribution of main-sequence turnoff stars in the Galactic halo
We determine the metallicity distribution function (MDF) of the Galactic halo
based on metal-poor main-sequence turnoff-stars (MSTO) which were selected from
the Hamburg/ESO objective-prism survey (HES) database. Corresponding follow-up
moderateresolution observations (R ~ 2000) of some 682 stars (among which 617
were accepted program stars) were carried out with the 2.3m telescope at the
Siding Spring Observatory (SSO). Corrections for the survey volume covered by
the sample stars were quantitatively estimated and applied to the observed MDF.
The corrections are quite small, when compared with those for a previously
studied sample of metal-poor giants. The corrected observational MDF of the
turnoff sample was then compared with that of the giants, as well as with a
number of theoretical predictions of Galactic chemical evolution, including the
mass-loss modified Simple Model. Although the survey-volume corrected MDFs of
the metal-poor turnoff and the halo giants notably differ in the region of
[Fe/H] > -2.0, below [Fe/H] ~ -2.0, (the region we scientifically focus on
most) both MDFs show a sharp drop at [Fe/H] ~ -3.6 and present rather similar
distributions in the low-metallicity tail. Theoretical models can fit some
parts of the observed MDF, but none is found to simultaneously reproduce the
peak as well as the features in the metal-poor region with [Fe/H] between -2.0
to -3.6. Among the tested models only the GAMETE model, when normalized to the
tail of the observed MDF below [Fe/H] ~ -3.0, and with Z_{cr} =
10^{-3.4}Z_{\odot}, is able to predict the sharp drop at [Fe/H] ~ -3.6.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&
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